Listed below are the organizations and programs that we have supported over the past two years. We invite you to learn more about them by visiting their individual websites.
Turnaround Arts: California and its partner public schools are committed to using the arts to narrow the opportunity gap, increase student engagement, and improve campus culture and climate.
Turnaround Arts, launched in 2012 by the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities as a national program, utilizes the arts as a strategic tool to help close the achievement gap and improve school culture in a group of the nation’s lowest-performing public elementary schools.
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is the and only independent school of music in the UC system. The school trains and educates students across western classical and world music traditions, balancing performance mastery and composition with cutting-edge scholarship.
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company empowers youth in underserved and at-risk environments with the means and methods necessary to explore personal and social conflicts. The program seeks to develop self-esteem, communication, and coping skills to help youth make positive life choices.
Venice Arts’ mission is to ignite, expand, and transform the lives of Los Angeles’ low-income youth through photography and film education. The program uses participatory storytelling practices to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities.
Vista Del Mar provides comprehensive, family-centered, social, educational, and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self-reliant, stable and productive lives. The Eden Alpert Therapeutic Music Program provides Vista Del Mar children with a safe environment to explore their creative potential, develop a greater appreciation of music, and learn career skills.